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Lot Essay
The present bowl is finely potted with a lotus bud shape rising from a straight foot. It is delicately incised to the exterior with chrysanthemum and camellia blossoms below a key-fret band, the central medallion is moulded with a chrysanthemum spray encircled by a band of lotus petals rising from the centre to a band of moulded waves. All under an even white glaze.
Compare with a similar bowl housed in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Imperial Porcelains from the Reigns of Hongwu and Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, Beijing, 2015, pl.117; and one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, collection number: guci 006219, and illustrated in Pleasingly Pure and Lustrous-Porcelains from Yongle Reign, Taipei, 2017, p.84. Also one example exhibited in Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1948, and later sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2016, lot 3315.
Compare with a similar bowl housed in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Imperial Porcelains from the Reigns of Hongwu and Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, Beijing, 2015, pl.117; and one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, collection number: guci 006219, and illustrated in Pleasingly Pure and Lustrous-Porcelains from Yongle Reign, Taipei, 2017, p.84. Also one example exhibited in Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1948, and later sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2016, lot 3315.